PASC's September 2023 newsletter, highlighting change and new beginnings at PASC, exhibitions at University of Michigan, PASC's final exhibition at our Pop Up Belt Alley Gallery, upcoming events at Eastern Market After Dark and Batch Brewing. A presentation with Michigan Rehabilitation Services (MRS). And upcoming exhibitions at NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA, and Wayne County Community College, Belleville, MI.

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Read our most recent PASC AUGUST NEWSLETTER, which discusses not only meeting but exceeding our PASC LANTERN Campaign Match, our CFSEM Grant, the next PASC at the Belt exhibition opening September 9 and more.

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From February 25-May 6, 2023, Eight PASC artists have been selected to exhibit in Get Together at Reyes|Finn Gallery in Detroit. This salon-style group exhibition is dedicated to the creative life of Detroit and its significance as a historical center of avant-garde art production. 

What makes this exhibition of particular importance to PASC, this is the first exhibition in which PASC artists will be exhibiting alongside other neurotypical artists in a professional for profit art gallery. The opening event will be held on Saturday, February 25^th from 4-7pm. We hope you will drop on by.  

Shawna Campbell, Julieann Dombrowski, Chantell Donwell, Lewis Foster, Ronald Griggs, Susan Hudson, Alsendoe Owens, Renee Rogan, Thomas Saunders, Marear Smith, Ray Smith, and Promise Vos will be exhibiting alongside over 100 other Detroit artists. 

On February 23^rd from 5-9, PASC and Chap Lofts are partnering to host an art exhibit and fundraiser ART AT HOME: A Progressive Art Exhibition. Chap Lofts is a boutique loft building in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit. The goal of the partnership is to supplement Chap’s real estate staging with artworks from PASC.

The opening exhibition, ART AT HOME, will showcase PASC artists, sharing their creativity with the wider community, and providing opportunities to support the PASC program going forwards. The opening will feature light refreshments and appetizers provided by STEP’s “What’s Cooking” culinary arts program.

RSVP for the event via our Eventbrite page

The following PASC’s artists will have artworks presented; Jirard Bond, Stanley Brown, Shawna Campbell, Sereal Crawford, Julieanne Dombrowski, Chantell Donwell, Robert Duncombe, Lewis Foster, Eric Green, DeRon Hudson, Susan Hudson, Shawn Jackson, Keisha Miller, Debbie Osteen, Alsendoe Owens, Renee Rogan, Marquise Rucker, Thomas Saunders, Ray Smith, Aaron Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, and Promise Vos.

Chap Lofts is located at 2843 E Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI, 48211.

PASC artist Lewis Foster's artwork will be featured in a group exhibition "By Design" opening Saturday, 2/4 at Sage Studio. The show explores how design touches everything around us—from fashion to interior decorating to the recurring patterns in nature. 

The show features pieces by Anna Burke (SAGE Studio), Lewis Foster (PASC), Annie Rose Macer (North Pole), James Rosa (LAND Gallery), Gav Sears (SAGE Studio), Byron Smith (LAND Gallery), and Woodley White. 

Sage Studio is an Austin, TX based studio and exhibitions program for artists with Disabilities. SAGE (Supporting Artistic Growth and Entrepreneurship) Studio serves artists with disabilities through two main programs: their Studio Program and our Exhibition Program.

PASC Southgate is launching a Saturday studio program open to any disabled adults in the area. We will be hosting an info session on Feb 11, 10am-12pm at our Southgate studio, where we will discuss cost, duration of program and studio details. 

Light refreshments will be served.

Email to RSVP for the info session progressiveart@stepcentral.org

Lewis Foster presented his work to Jen Schantz on WXYZ ABC Channel 7's early morning segment on Saturday, January 21.

https://www.wxyz.com/about-us/as-seen-on/pasc-supports-artists-with-developmental-disabilities-and-mental-health-differences

He and PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini talked about the upcoming show “Get Together” at Reyes | Finn Gallery opening Feb 25, which will  feature Lewis and some other PASC artists alongside other Detroit artists.

Listen to Bridget Finn, interviewed by Ryan Patrick Hooper on WDET's CultureShift, where she talks about guest curating Affections, an exhibition at the PASC Detroit Pop-up Gallery, her experience with her daughter, diagnosed with STXPB1, and how she turned to art for support. 

https://wdet.org/2022/08/03/gallerist-and-pasc-guest-curator-holds-fundraiser-to-fund-rare-disease-research/

PASC was featured in a segment by Jenn Schanz of WXYZ Channel 7. PASC artist Stanley Brown was featured along with STEP CEO Brent Mikulski, PASC Program Manager Anthony Marcellini and The Vella Group's Anne-Marie Gattari.   

Watch the segment below

https://www.wxyz.com/news/pop-up-exhibition-near-eastern-market-celebrates-artists-with-disabilities